With experiments, I conclude the following are right format/instances:
text/html; mozilla -remote openurl\\(file:%s\\)
text/html; mozilla -remote openfile\\(%s\\)
text/html; mozilla %s (this should also work if run in shell w/o problem)
thanks for your help,
charlie
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 01:30:47AM -0500, Philip Mak wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Charles Jie wrote:
>
> > In my .mailcap:
> >
> > text/html; mozilla -remote openurl\(file:%s\)
> >
> > always fails because %s is expanded as '....'
> >
> > The quotes are the problem because they mix up in the URL.
>
> How about this?
>
> text/html; mozilla -remote openurl\(file:`echo %s | sed "s/^'\(.*\)'$/\1/"`\)
>
> sed "s/^'\(.*\)'$/\1/" will read 'something' from standard input and write
> it to standard output without the single quotes.
